An exchange in the comments section of this post made me think of one of my favorite scenes from “My Fair Lady.” It’s a discourse on the welfare system by Eliza’s ne-er-do-well father, Alfred Doolittle: Here it is: And here’s … Continue reading →
This Politico piece about how Obama’s campaign has been flatfooted and awkward contains the following rather amusing observation: Some key Democrats say they have been dismayed watching Obama become a divider not a uniter, trying to incite anger among women, … Continue reading →
So all right already—Obama was a stoner in high school. Didn’t we already know that? And although the photos are rather interesting in a retro-70s way, do we really care? Not all that much, although it certainly tells us some … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve never seen Suzanne Farrell dance. Perhaps you’ve never even heard of her. She’s sixty-six now and retired from performing for over twenty years. But in her heyday she was unique, and choreographer George Balanchine was besotted with her. … Continue reading →
I wonder what Obama meant by this—other than just a new way to attack Romney: There was a woman in Iowa who shared her story of financial struggles, and he gave her an answer right out of an economic textbook. … Continue reading →
Author Paul Fussell has died at 88. I read only two things he wrote, but both of them were extraordinary. The first was his magnum opus, the one that made him famous (at least in some circles), The Great War … Continue reading →
…her son Tripp is one seriously adorable child:
Continue reading →During the Republican primaries, Romney was attacked mightily for his tenure at Bain. Gingrich was the main—although hardly the only—source of the criticism. His supporters said that, far from harming Romney if Mitt ended up being the nominee, this would … Continue reading →
Several eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman-Martin case have changed their original accounts, mostly to reflect more poorly on Zimmerman. This is disturbing, but not at all unusual. Eyewitness testimony, which many people give extreme weight to, is notoriously unreliable. And that’s … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →…is bad for the gander. So says the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The subject matter is PSA tests for routine prostate cancer screening, and here’s the post I wrote about that very same panel’s recommendations on mammograms for women … Continue reading →
I was starting to write a post about this Ed Koch endorsement of Obama. My plan was to point out what the piece said about Romney’s positions vs. his actual stated positions, highlighting the sometimes subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle distortions … Continue reading →